CAMP Guide – Benjamin Pogrund Collection of Southern Africa materials
The Benjamin Pogrund Collection of Southern Africa Materials
From the CAMP catalog, November 1973
Scholars now and in years to come owe much to Benjamin Pogrund. Motivated by a selfless interest in research, Mr. Pogrund has arranged for invaluable archives and collections of documents to be microfilmed which would otherwise be accessible only to those able to travel both to Southern Africa and extensively within that great sub- continent. Those who use any of the hundreds of reels of microfilm for which Mr. Pogrund is responsible should remember that he worked to have them made at a great personal investment of time and effort. A certain portion of this material was collected in the interest of his own scholarship (Mr. Pogrund has been studying for advanced university degrees while pursuing a distinguished career as a journalist) but the fact that he made the effort to have this microfilmed, and then procured additional collections out of a disinterested devotion to research, places all who work in Southern African studies deeply in his debt. To estimate the number of scholars who will thus be saved arduous and expensive travels or the frustration of discovering that essential resources have disappeared or are otherwise inaccessible is not possible.
This collection is so designated the “Benjamin Pogrund Collection of Southern Africa Materials” by the Cooperative Africana Microform Project as a tribute, inadequate but sincere, to Mr. Pogrund’s labors on behalf of the scholarly world.*
* Scholars utilizing these materials in their research are asked to acknowledge Benjamin Pogrund as well as the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
Short Title List (Full catalog records are available in CRL’s catalog unless specified below) http://www.crl.edu
Archival collections and ephemera
Black Sash (Society) Papers, 1955-1970 MF-2552
Black Sash (Society) Papers, 1955-1973 MF-3446
Black Sash (Society) [Paper, 3rd series] MF-5024
Black Sash (Society) Papers, 1955-1977 MF-4468
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Black sash. Die Swart serp [v. 1-12] (1956-1969] MF-759, 3446
Congress of Democrats Correspondence, minutes, circulars, clippings, etc. MF-565
Federation of Mining Unions (South Africa) Miscellaneous papers MF-889
Industrial and commercial workers union of Africa Records, 1925-1943 MF-884 [uncat.] Liberal Party (South Africa). Transvaal Provincial Division Records, 1959-1963. MF-900
Molema, S. M [Collection of ephemera related to the African National Congress… MF-456
National Union of South African Students [Documents on university apartheid and on Christian national… MF-890
National Union of South African Students Reports. [Cape Town, etc. 1924-1966] MF-891
Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. General documentation, 1969-1973. MF-2933
Trade Union Council of South Africa Archive records [1914-1969] MF-1342
Trials, evidence, and commissions
Adams, Farid, defendant Treason trial evidence MF-405
Biko, Steve, 1946-1977 Geregtelike nadoodse ondersoek… [Extracts from the evidence…] MF-4450
Ffrench-Beytagh, Gonville, defendant The State versus Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh MF-2542
Letsoko, Napoleon, defendant State vs. Napoleon Letsoko MF-561
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Mandela, Nelson, 1918- Rivonia Sabotage Trial MF-451 [uncat] Mandela, Nelson, 1918- Trial of Nelson Mandela. MF-455 Also contains trial of Walter Sisulu
Masemula, Jafta Kgalabi, defendant State vs. Masemula and 15 others MF-568
Monyaki, Johannes, defendant Regina vs. Joannes Monyaki and others. MF-892
Mtshizana, Louis Leo, appellant Louis Leo Mtshizana, appellant versus the State MF-562
Ngakane, Pascal, defendant State versus Pascal Ngakane MF-568
Oral evidence given in connection with September 1976 riots in Cape Town MF-13456
Pogrund, Benjamin In the Supreme Court … in the matter between Benjamin Pogrund, appellant, and Dr. Percy Yutar, respondent. MF-1447
Setshedi, Isaac, defendant State versus Isaac Setshedi MF-563
Sisulu, Walter Trial of Walter Sisulu in the Magistrate's Court MF-455
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso. defendent Materials relating to the appeals of Robert M. Sobukwe… MF-2400
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, defendent Regina vs. Robert Sobukwe and others MF-2399
South Africa. Commission of Enquiry to Enquire into the Events in the Districts of Vereeniging (namely the Sharpeville Location and Evaton) and Vanderbijlpark, Transvaal Province, on 21st March, 1960 [Minutes of evidence and exhibits… MF-893
South Africa. Commission of Inquiry into the Events at Paarl, on the 20th to 22nd November 1962 Kommissie van Ondersoek MF-647
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South African Associated Newspapers Ltd., defendant The State vs. South African Associated Newspapers, Ltd. and MF-1458 [Gandar and Pogrund.]
South African trials; court records of various appeal and criminal cases… MF-887
Strachan, Robert Harold Lundie, 1925- defendant [Transcript of the State vs. R.H.L. Strachan on] MF-860
Taimo, Filisberto, defendant State vs. Filisberto Taimo MF-563
Theron, Johannes Andreas, defendant Die Staat teen Johannes Andreas Theron MF-900
Tuhadeleni, Eliaser, defendent Die Staat teen Eliaser Tuhadeleni and 36 ander MF-931
From: Guide to the Pogrund papers at Yale: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/mssa.1261.con.html
Benjamin Pogrund was born in Cape Town, South Africa on May 5, 1933. He obtained degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Social Science at the University of Cape Town between 1950 and 1956 and Bachelor of Arts in African Studies at Witwatersrand University in 1971. From 1958 to 1985, Pogrund worked in a variety of capacities for the Rand Daily Mail, including African affairs reporter, night editor, and deputy editor. He achieved acclaim and notoriety for his reports on prison conditions and for his coverage of black South African individuals and groups who organized resistance to apartheid. Pogrund also wrote on South African affairs for many publications abroad, including the Boston Globe, Economist, Today, New Republic, and Sunday Times (London) and published several books, including a biography of Robert Sobukwe. Pogrund collected extensive materials documenting the struggle against apartheid and donated them to research libraries around the world. He moved to London in the mid-1980s, where he worked in the foreign departments of several newspapers and commented widely on South Africa. He lived for a short while in the United States during the 1990s before moving to Israel to establish the Center for Social Concern in 1997.
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